2 Somali pirates get 30 years in kidnapping of U.S ... - CBS News
1 day ago · Updated on: November 13, 2024 / 9:01 AM EST / CBS News. Two Somali pirates have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and holding him hostage ...
Somali pirate from Minnesota sentenced for role in ... - Bring Me The News
22 hours ago · Both Abdi Yusef Hassan of Minneapolis and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed of Somalia were sentenced to 30 years in prison for their roles in Michael Scott Moore's three-year abduction. Two Somali pirates, including one from Minnesota, have been sentenced 30 years in prison for holding an American journalist ...
Pirate From Minnesota Jailed Over Kidnap of Journalist
1 day ago · In 2014, Moore's family paid the $1.6 million ransom, which they had raised throughout his kidnapping, and the kidnappers released Moore, CBS reported. Michael Scott Moore in Los Angeles on June ...
Somali-born US citizen turned pirate gets 30 years for kidnapping
23 hours ago · Abdi Yusuf Hassan, formerly of Minneapolis, and Somali citizen Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed were convicted in early 2023 of kidnapping and holding Moore for 977 days before Moore’s family paid a $1.6 million ransom. “For nearly three years, Michael Scott Moore was held hostage in Somalia by pirates,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in a ...
2 Somali men sentenced to 30 years in kidnapping and ... - NBC News
1 day ago · "For nearly three years, Michael Scott Moore was held hostage in Somalia by pirates. He was beaten, chained to the floor, and threatened with assault rifles and machine guns," Williams, the U.S ...
Minneapolis man sentenced for role in Somali pirate kidnapping of ...
22 hours ago · A Minneapolis man who served as the leader in the overseas kidnapping of a journalist for over two-and-a-half years in 2012 was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
Two Somali Pirates Sentenced to 30 Years Each in Prison for …
1 day ago · News; Press Releases; Two Somali Pirates Sentenced To 30 Years Each In Prison For Armed Hostage Taking of American Journalist ... Abdi Yusuf Hassan and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed Abused Their Somali Government Positions in Holding Michael Scott Moore Hostage for Nearly Three Years. Abdi Yusef Hassan, 56, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Mohamed ...
Two Somali pirates sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping …
Moore, then a 45-year-old U.S.-German dual citizen was kidnapped by an unspecified armed group in January 2012 while conducting research on piracy for a book on a grant from the Pulitzer Center ...
Two Somali men sentenced to 30 years for kidnapping of …
1 day ago · FILE – Michael Scott Moore, author of “The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast,” poses for a portrait at Los Angeles Public Library in Los Angeles on June 20, 2018.
US court convicts 2 men of 2012 kidnapping of journalist Michael Scott ...
Nairobi, March 7, 2023—In response to a U.S. federal court’s conviction of two men, Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusu Hassan, in the 2012 hostage-taking of German American journalist Michael Scott Moore, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement welcoming the conviction: